Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan 2011-2029
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Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan 2011 – 2029 Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan 2011–2029 CONTENTS FOREWORD 5 SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 6 1.1 Purpose 6 1.2 Submitting Body 6 1.3 Neighbourhood Area 6 1.4 The Context 6 1.5 Plan Period, Monitoring and Review 7 SECTION 2: PROCESS SUMMARY 8 2.1 Plan Development Process 8 2.2 Community Engagement 10 2.3 Evidence Base 10 SECTION 3: VISION, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 12 3.1 Goals 12 3.2 Objectives 14 SECTION 4: THE PARISH OF OAKLEY AND DEANE 15 4.1 The Neighbourhood Area 15 4.2 Living in the Neighbourhood Area 16 4.3 Community and Recreation Facilities 17 4.4 Heath and Health Care 17 4.5 Communications Infrastructure 18 4.6 Shopping 18 4.7 Schools 18 4.8 Community Facilities 19 SECTION 5: HOUSING POLICIES 20 5.1 Background 20 5.2 Housing Strategy 20 5.3 Housing Numbers, Mix and Tenancy 21 5.4 Affordable Dwellings for Local People 22 5.5 New Dwelling Type and Size 22 5.6 Retirement Housing provision 23 5.7 Development Sites 24 Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan 2011–2029 2 SECTION 6: HOUSING SITE POLICIES 25 6.1 Site Allocations and Constraints 25 6.2 Sustainability Appraisal 28 6.3 Site Specific Considerations 29 6.4 Contingency Planning 30 SECTION 7: COMMUNITY POLICIES 31 7.1 Allotments 31 7.2 Play Areas 31 SECTION 8: PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT 32 8.1 Rural Setting 32 8.2 Settlement Separation 32 8.3 Historic Environment 33 8.4 Countryside and the Natural Environment 33 SECTION 9: EMPLOYMENT AND SKILLS 41 9.1 Employment and Skills 41 SECTION 10: DESIGN POLICIES 42 10.1 Design 42 SECTION 11: TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT 43 11.1 Traffic in the Village 43 11.2 Parking around One Stop and the schools 44 11.3 Improvements to the Oakley Lane/ Pack Lane crossroads 44 11.4 Improvements to the Fox Lane/B3400 junction 45 11.5 Reduced speed limit 45 11.6 Local Transport 46 APPENDIX A: LOCAL GREEN SPACES, GREEN GAP AND VIEWS AND VISTAS 47 A.1 Local Green Space 47 A.2 Green Gap 49 A.3 Views and Vistas 49 Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan 2011–2029 3 APPENDIX B: EXISTING BUILDINGS USED FOR BUSINESS, EDUCATION AND TRADE 51 APPENDIX C: REVISED SETTLEMENT POLICY BOUNDARY AND SITE LOCATIONS 53 APPENDIX D: LIST OF DOCUMENTATION PROVIDED AS EVIDENCE FOR THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN 57 Submission version of Plan and associated material 57 Presubmission Neighbourhood Plan and associated material 57 January 2014 Consultation 57 April 2014 Consultation 57 September 2014 Consultation 57 Information to the Community – Link Magazine articles 58 Site Assessments 58 Miscellaneous Supporting information 58 GLOSSARY OF TERMS 59 REFERENCES 61 Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan 2011–2029 4 FOREWORD F1 Neighbourhood Plans derive from the Government’s determination to ensure that local communities are closely involved in the decisions that affect them. The Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan (the Neighbourhood Plan) has been developed to establish a vision for the Villages in the Parish of Oakley and Deane, and to help deliver the local community’s needs and aspirations for the Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council’s emerging Local Plan 2011-2029. The Neighbourhood Plan is a statutory document that will be incorporated into the Borough planning framework, and must be used by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council (B&DBC) to determine planning applications. The Neighbourhood Plan has been produced by local residents, with the support of, and delegated by the Oakley and Deane Parish Council, using the views of the residents of Oakley and Deane. Financial support has been provided by the nationwide community support organisation, Locality. The Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Planning Group has consulted with and listened to the community on a wide range of issues that will influence the well-being, sustainability and long-term preservation of this rural community. Every effort has been made to ensure that the views and policies contained in this document reflect those of the majority of Oakley and Deane residents. F2 A Neighbourhood Plan has many benefits. The Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan has been developed by volunteers from the Parish to: protect the Villages from uncontrolled, large scale or poorly- placed development; allocate the number of dwellings identified by B&DBC’s emerging Local Plan 2011-2029, according to the wishes of the community; ensure that development is sympathetic to, and improves the look and feel of, the Villages; take steps to give residents preferred access to many of the new dwellings; protect the area immediately east of Oakley from development, thus maintaining Oakley and Deane as a separate community from Basingstoke; provide the Parish with the opportunity to access 25% of the Community Infrastructure Levy to improve facilities; and, identify, in a Projects List, additional actions to improve community facilities, services and the local environment as well as address issues beyond the control of the Neighbourhood Plan. F3 The Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Planning Group received over 329 responses to its first Consultation in January 2013, over 655 responses to the second Consultation in April 2014 and 1,911 responses (43% of those eligible to vote) to the third Consultation in September 2014. Hence, the community has been fully engaged with the creation of this Neighbourhood Plan and its Policies. John Glasscock Chairman Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Planning Group Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan 2011–2029 5 Section 1: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 1.1 Purpose In April 2012 the Localism Act 2011 (the Act) amended the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 through the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), and introduced new rights and powers to allow local communities to shape future development in their community by preparing a Neighbourhood Plan to establish strategic general planning policies for the development and use of land in the neighbourhood. This document is a Neighbourhood Plan as defined in the Act. 1.2 Submitting Body This Neighbourhood Plan is submitted by Oakley and Deane Parish Council, which is a qualifying body as defined by the Localism Act 2011. 1.3 Neighbourhood Area The Neighbourhood Plan applies to the whole of the Parish of Oakley and Deane (see Map 1) within the Borough of Basingstoke and Deane. B&DBC (the local planning authority) publicised the application from Oakley and Deane Parish Council and advertised a consultation period 2 April 2013 - 14 May 2013. The application was approved by the Cabinet of B&DBC on 24 July 2014 and the Parish of Oakley and Deane was designated as the Neighbourhood Area on that date. Oakley and Deane Parish Council confirms that this: • Neighbourhood Plan relates only to the Parish of Oakley and Deane and to no other Neighbourhood Areas; and, • is the only Neighbourhood Plan in the designated area. No other Neighbourhood Plan exists nor is in development for part or all of the designated Neighbourhood Area. 1.4 The Context 1.4.1 The Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan is strategic in nature and must: • have appropriate regard to national planning policy; • contribute to the sustainable development; • be in general conformity with strategic policies in the development plan for the local area; and, • be compatible with European Union obligations and human rights requirements. 1.4.2 The Parish of Oakley and Deane is part of the Borough of Basingstoke and Deane. The local strategic policies (as in 3rd bullet point above) are set out in the saved policies from the Adopted Local Plan 1996-2011. The Borough Council is also currently progressing towards the adoption of an emerging Local Plan 2011-2029, which will set out the new strategic planning policies for the Borough. The Neighbourhood Plan therefore needs to take into account the proposed Site Allocation of the Manydown Area in the emerging Local Plan (a small part of which lies within the Neighbourhood Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan 2011–2029 6 Area), the remaining Manydown Area within which master planning will take place, and the Basingstoke-Oakley Strategic Gap (large parts of both of which lie within the Neighbourhood Area (see Map 1) 1.4.3 The NPPF: Planning Practice Guidance (2014) makes clear that Neighbourhood Plans can be made before the emerging Local Plan is adopted. 1.5 Plan Period, Monitoring and Review The Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan will run concurrently with the B&DBC emerging Local Plan and will be in force until 31 March 2029. It is, however, a response to the needs and aspirations of the local community as understood today, and it is recognised that current challenges and concerns are likely to change over the Plan period. Oakley and Deane Parish Council, as the qualifying body, will undertake monitoring the progress of the Plan and taking appropriate actions as required. Legend Proposed Site Allocation of the Manydown Area in the emerging Local Plan Designated Neighbourhood Area Proposed Country Park Map 1 – Oakley and Remaining Manydown Area in land ownership within which master planning will take place Deane Neighbourhood Proposed Basingstoke-Oakley Strategic Gap Area. © Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey LA100019356 Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan 2011–2029 7 Section 2: PROCESS SUMMARY 2.1 Plan Development Process 2.1.1 Oakley and Deane Parish Council resolved to develop a Neighbourhood Plan for Oakley and Deane on 14 March 2013. A number of volunteers came forward, during the summer of 2013, in response to a request from the Parish Council to support this initiative. The Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Planning Group (The Group) was formed and held its inaugural meeting on 4 September 2013.